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I'm sure I don't know much about the topic, but it seems to me that if Pete Hegseth were truly a white supremacist, he wouldn't get along as well as he appears to with Tyrus and with Lawrence Jones, nor would he have such nice things to say about Candace Owens. Confused Razz



Aren’t all of those race traitors though? I mean, I don’t think any of them voted for FJB, so are they even black?

These BS opinions tossed out as “fact” piss me off. I’d love to see her get slapped with a slander lawsuit.

And as to the women in combat claim, again they hone in on one thing and ignore the context.


His issue with women in combat is in duties where physical strength plays a part. No issue with women combat pilots, but an issue on infantry and other positions where physical strength is integral to the duties. His argument is where women have lower physical standards or they have lowered the overall standard so more women can pass, it reduces the ability to be effective war fighters.






What part of "...Shall not be infringed" don't you understand???


 
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I think Andrea has been on a bender since the election.

https://x.com/Patri0tContr0l/s.../1857174451269292218

Mitchell is the embodiment of a Swamp creature, she's been with NBC in Washington for FORTY-SIX YEARS. She insulted the people of Virginia calling them 'rednecks' during Obama's campaign and was an active participant in the Valarie Plame-leak. Oh, and she's married to Alan Greenspan. She can't retire fast enough.
 
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It sounds to me that a Trump FEC is going to have a field day after 1/20/25

https://x.com/megynkelly/statu...251029852536900?s=46



 
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His issue with women in combat is in duties where physical strength plays a part. No issue with women combat pilots, but an issue on infantry and other positions where physical strength is integral to the duties. His argument is where women have lower physical standards or they have lowered the overall standard so more women can pass, it reduces the ability to be effective war fighters.[/QUOTE]

As an old soldier, SSGT US Army 1960 - 1965, I have no issue with female soldiers in Army non-combat roles. Consider me sexist, but the vast majority of women would not be able to pass the strength requirements for a combat war fighter. Nothing to do with intellectual capacity, only physical strength.

The move to DEI in the combat arms was a ghastly, stupid idea and those responsible should NOT be in any command position!


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That QCNNanon thinks ANYONE on President Trump's team trusts ANYTHING the FBI says or does is evidence of how disconnected from reality these assholes have become.

Idiots.





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NASA staff beg Elon Musk to 'clean house' after agency spent millions of Americans' money on DEI agenda

By STACY LIBERATORE FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 12:27 EST, 15 November 2024 | UPDATED: 13:14 EST, 15 November 2024

NASA staff are calling on Elon Musk to 'clean house' as it is revealed the agency blew millions of taxpayer money on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs.

Spending reports from 2020 to 2024 showed NASA awarded grants to universities and consulting firms to support 'environmental justice' and initiatives that 'embrace greater diversity and inclusive practices.'

LMI consulting received over $2 million in 2023 for NASA to 'embark on a venture to incorporate and deeply engrain diversity, inclusion, equity and accessibility in the culture and business.'

Another $3 million went to Booze Allen Hamilton in March to support NASA's 'office of diversity and equal opportunity DEI data analytic specialty,' and $ 7 million was announced last month for six 'minority-serving institutions.'

Amid these expenditures, staff have voiced concerns online about budget shortages, citing struggles with 'limited funds' due to 'wasteful spending.' Software engineer Kyle Sorensen told he hopes Musk will 'clean house.'

Musk, along with former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, was tapped to lead the Department of Government Efficiency that aims to 'slash excess regulations, cut wasteful expenditures and restructure Federal Agencies.'

A former NASA employee told DailyMail.com that NASA's DEI is 'destroying America's ability to compete with China in space because the Biden-Harris administration will only fund programs that feature it.'

NASA receives, on average, about 0.4 percent of what the US government spends each year, but is still given a budget of at least $20 billion.

While the space agency has dished out millions for DEI, it's data showed it generated more than $75.6 billionin economic output across all 50 states and Washington, D.C., in fiscal year 2023.

Yet, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) laid off five percent, 325 employees, of its workforce this week and a previous 530 that were let go in February.

The American space agency began incorporating diversity and equal employment opportunity elements into supervisors' performance plans in 2005 but did not hold leaders fully accountable until 2021.

This shift coincided with the Biden-Harris Administration's executive order, emphasizing diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility within the federal workforce.

NASA's spending report, first reported on by the Daily Signal, highlighted several universities that received NASA grants for environmental justice, including the Regents of the University of California that was awarded $250,000.

The fund was provided to support 'Earth Science Applications: Equity and Environmental Justice.'

And in 2020, NASA allocated roughly $900,000 to the National Academy of Sciences, a private, non-profit organization.

The grant was for 'increasing diversity and inclusion in the leadership of competed space missions by establishing an ad hoc committee to recommend actions to increase diversity, inclusion, equity and accessibility in the leadership of space mission proposals.'

The Southeastern Universities Research Association was also given thousands of dollars to make the NASA's heliophysics material 'more relevant and open to the Latinx and Native American communities.'

DailyMail.com uncovered more DEI grants worth missions that had not published in the spending report, including the funds given to Booz Allen Hamilton.

The Virginia-based company is described as 'a management and technology consulting firm that provides services to the U.S. government, military, and other organizations.'

While Booz Allen Hamilton has conducted space exploration research for NASA, it has received or been promised several grants for DEI programs.

Reports from USA Spending.gov show a $3.3 million grant proposal issued in March for 'NASA's Office of Diversity and Equal Opportunity DEI data analytics and assessment.'

Completion of the award is scheduled for August 2025.

'NASA JPL will lay off almost a thousand workers this year to make budget space for a plethora of ridiculous word salad DEI and environmental programs which contribute nothing to actual space exploration,' the former NASA employee said.

'DEI is a full employment program for people with otherwise useless degrees.'

An August report found that NASA spent more than $1 billion less on planetary science in the first two years of the decadal period (2023 - 2032).

'If these trends continue, there will be a $5 to 11 billion shortfall in planetary science funding by 2032,' reads the report from the Planetary Society.

'These missing billions will reduce the rate of medium and small planetary missions, severely delay new flagship missions to Uranus and Enceladus, and severely constrain options for implementing Mars Sample Return.'

The report suggested NASA is not spending enough on planetary science, yet has gone well above budget during the Biden Administration.

Rudy Ridolfi, former Space System Commander in the US military, told DailyMail.com that '[the DEI funding] is a small amount relative to [NASA's]research budget,' but with' the Artemis Program overruns, NASA should be conserving every dollar of their budget.'

NASA has been plagued by overrun costs during the Biden Administration, exceeding its roughly $99 billion from taxpayers by about $10 billion.

When asked about the $10 billion overrun in costs, John Conafay, former US Air Force and worked at the Office of the CFO NASA, told DailyMail.com: 'It's not good.'

'Artemis was the big program for the cost overruns. The schedule set by the Biden Administration and the concept of the Lunar Gateway were just too much for NASA to accomplish,' Ridolfi said.

Conafay explained that the US has been using cost-plus contracts since World War II. These contracts allow companies to renegotiate for more funding when they encounter delays or issues, which has contributed to NASA's budget challenges.

'A lot of people are out there kind of questioning like, why are we doing this,' he said.

'Why aren't we doing fixed price contracts? So it improperly incentivizes free market to build what they say, they're going to build on time and under budget. Otherwise, if that cost them right?'


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Related to Para's post above, back a couple of weeks ago, I posted about the Trump team refusing to sign a "Memorandum of Understanding" document to have the swamp involved in the Trump transition.



The process Rep. Jaime Raskin (who was on the Jan 6th committee and is a certified Trump hater) is referring to above was created by Obama and his General Services Administration in 2010 and used by Trump in 2016 and Biden in 2020. It looks like Trump is avoiding this "continuity transition" protocol like the plague because it involves Obama and his bureaucrats in the transition. One note- the GSA was used by the FBI in assisting in the Mar A Lago raid.

Looks like Trump is avoiding the mistakes in the 2016-17 transition process, basically self-financing the current transition and not having deep staters get their hands into the process.



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I think Andrea has been on a bender since the election.

Is there any other country where politicians are expected to go on TV every day and be grilled/debated by activists for the opposition party?

It is insane.

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I hope Rick Grenell gets something in the new administration.
 
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Kennedy is the best pick for this! I love it! Real things will happen now for the best interest of people.


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Friday, November 14, 2024 C&C NEWS
A special Robert Kennedy, Jr. edition, pushing past the hot takes and quieting the media racket to explore the profound significance of this revolutionary, historic nomination.

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com...rue&utm_medium=email



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-- Justice Janice Rogers Brown

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Sen. Casey Wants Ballots From Unregistered Voters To Be Counted In Pennsylvania Recount

https://thefederalist.com/2024...ennsylvania-recount/

The Pennsylvania Senate race between Democrat incumbent Bob Casey and Republican Dave McCormick is headed for a mandatory recount, and the Casey campaign is challenging several counties that rejected ballots from unregistered voters.

The race was already called by the Associated Press in favor of McCormick, and McCormick’s team says the numbers show Casey has no path to victory.

The Pennsylvania Department of State announced the recount Wednesday because the results are within a half percent margin, with McCormick ahead by 27,000 votes.

A new timeline now takes over before the results can be certified.

“Once counties finish counting their ballots, they must begin the recount no later than Wednesday, Nov. 20. They must complete the recount by noon on Nov. 26 and must report results to the Secretary by noon on Nov. 27. Results of the recount will not be published until Nov. 27,” Pennsylvania Secretary of State Al Schmidt said in a statement.

Schmidt said Wednesday that county election officials reported 60,366 uncounted provisional ballots and 20,155 uncounted mail-in and absentee ballots. “That 80,521 total includes all ballots for which county boards of elections have not yet made a final resolution regarding their validity or eligibility to be counted.” Schmidt said.

The 80,000 remaining votes mentioned by the Department of State in its statement include the 10,000 that were added to the totals Wednesday, Harris said, and tens of thousands of ballots have been adjudicated as invalid by the counties.

Mark Harris, lead strategist for the McCormick campaign, said in a Thursday media call that Casey’s campaign has sent letters to some counties challenging their rejection of provisional ballots because the voters were “determined by the Board not to be registered.”

“CFS [Casey For Senate] challenges the rejection of provisional ballots based solely on the Board’s staff’s failure to find voters’ names on registered-voter lists,” one of the letters says.

“The Casey position is that they are the ones who need to confirm whether a voter is registered or not, not taking the word of the local board of elections and the [Pennsylvania computer voter registration system.]” The McCormick campaign’s attorney James Fitzpatrick said on the call.

McCormick’s campaign will go to court to prevent the provisional ballots of unregistered voters from being counted.

“There is zero legal precedent to count the votes of unregistered voters in Pennsylvania,” Fitzpatrick said. Pennsylvania law requires that in order to cast a ballot, you must be registered.

In another case, McCormick’s team will ask the state Supreme Court to affirm its decision directing counties not to count mail ballots that do not have a date written on the envelope by the voter. This is a requirement of mail votes according to Pennsylvania law, but some counties have indicated that in this election, they will count the undated ballots anyway.


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Sounds like they need to destroy the village, in order to save it.

Where did I hear that before?
Oh yea, now I remember...


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Kennedy is the best pick for this! I love it! Real things will happen now for the best interest of people.


NEMESIS




Yup, nemesis is the correct term.





Nice is overrated

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The process Rep. Jaime Raskin

{The process Rep. Jaime Raskin]

If Raskin is involved in any way there will be no good to come of it for the Republicans. He's definately one of the swamp creatures! No use for him at all.


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Justice

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Justice

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Remove the clearances, then raid their houses at 0330 with a BATFE tactical team, searching for classified information these 51 shitheads now possess illegally.





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Does the House have to vote on revoking their clearances? I would think POTUS can do that with the stroke of a pen.
 
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Remove the clearances, then raid their houses at 0330 with a BATFE tactical team, searching for classified information these 51 shitheads now possess illegally.

Payback is a bitch.


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Does the House have to vote on revoking their clearances? I would think POTUS can do that with the stroke of a pen.


I *think* security clearances are granted by the Executive Branch, not Legislative Branch.

Now, even if the POTUS summarily lowers (or revokes) security clearances (such as occurred right after the Walker Spy Case), clearances are revoked immediately but the legal process is for the clearance holder to be properly / formally notified.

Notification can be as simple as "access denied" when trying access the data or space.






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